Shade device for vehicles.



PATENTED' JULY 24, 1906-.

G. ARMSTRONG. SHADE DEVICE FOR VEHICLES.

APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 16, 1906.

k VENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 16, 1905. Serial No. 278.785.

Patented July 24, 1906.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE ARMSTRONG, a citizen of the United. States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Ini rovements in Shade Devices for Vehicffes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is a canopy or shade device for vehicles.

The device consists of an attachment, shown in the present instance as applied to a baby-carriage, in which the principal feature is a swinging or folding frame having arms which are pivoted to brackets at the side of the carriage, the top of the frame being fitted with a shade or canopy attached to a springactuated roller. This roller is mounted in a bracket which is adjustably attached to the carriage.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective vlew of the invention, so much only of the carriage being shown as will suflice to show the connection of the invention therewith. Fig. 2 is a side view showing the parts folded. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of one of the brackets to which the swinging frame is pivoted.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 10 denotes a shade or flexible canopy which is attached at its free end to a cross-arm 17 connecting the two arms 17, said parts 1 7 and 17 forming as a whole a U-shaped frame. The rear end of the shade is wound on a spring-roller 11, which is mounted in brackets 12, adapted to be attached to the side arms 9 of the handle of the carriage by adjustable clips 13. Said clips are secured by thumb-screws 13, having bolts 13*, which extend through slots 14 in the cross-bar 12, which connects the brackets. This, construction permits adjustment of the attaching means according to the distance between the side arms 9.

The lower side bars of the carriage are indicated at 16, and on these are fastened brackets 18, on which the arms 17 are pivoted. The brackets 18 have each a notch 18,

and on each arm 17 is a pin 17*, adapted to enter said notch. The arms 17 are slotted, as at 17, through which slots the pivot-bolts 17 extend. By pulling the arms outwardly the pins 17 b can be disengaged from the notch 18 and the arms 17 then swung rearwardly on their pivots 17 to roll up the shade, as shown in Fig. 2. The shade is extended over the carriage by swinging the arms 17 forwardly, as shown in Fig. 1. In this position the pins 17 b engage the notches 18", whereby the arms are held from swinging back to roll up theshade.

Having thus described my invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. A canopy device for vehicles comprising a bracket supported on the vehicle, a springroller mounted in said bracket and carrying a shade, and swinging arms pivoted on the vehicle-frame and connected to the free end of the shade. I

2. The combination with a vehicle having rearwardly-extending handles, of a bracket secured to said handles, a spring-roller mounted in said bracket and carrying a shade, and vertically-swinging arms pivoted on the vehicle-frame and connected to the free end of the shade for extending the same over the vehicle.

3. The combination with a vehicle, of a s ring-roller mounted thereon and carrying a sliade, notched brackets secured to the vehicle-frame, vertically-swinging.slotted arms secured to the free end of the shade and having projecting pins arranged to enter the notches in the aforesaid brackets, and pivotbolts extending from the brackets through the slots in the arms.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE ARMSTRONG.

Witnesses:

CLARA PROSOHE, H. G. BATOHELOR. 

